Roboquest Speedrun - Recon Any%  

ranger with cutlass be like: "why is my primary weapon on the melee button?"

Ye they were all redrawn for the full release

Thank you so much! Would love to see you in the Speedrunning community

Only up from here! 😂

Me to I just started like a week ago

Also, if you happen to see this - how did you track Judgeball so well? That looked insane, was it purely jetpack or what do you utilize to stay within melee range?

Judgeball is kind of an RNG-machine... If you get good attack patterns it won't move at all, so you just crouch on its head and melee downwards. The one i got was all right, where it moves slightly, but slower than you do, so hovering with Jetpack is good enough. Actually it can be done much quicker as I got too far away multiple times. If you are unlucky, Judgeball will get a shield or start rolling all around the field, so you can't keep hitting it.

Also, if you join the discord, there is a Speedrunning channel, where you can always ask for tips on the best builds and strategies!

@@rainyskyzz_ I see, thank you - I enjoy Roboquest but I'm honestly not that impressive at it, although one thing I have been wondering is that for example in your run when you get to Haven City - Corrupted, how come you choose to manually jump/boost yourself back out of the Corrupted Rooms like at 7:08? In my mind I'd assume the launch pads are far much faster, plus you can probably get more momentum from that to boost yourself further ahead, no? Just a thought that made me curious, would love some insight!

The timer starts again when you hit the jump pad and for some rooms, the jump-pad-path is clunky and long, so on average you save some time by not taking them

You should see my junkrat yeah o_o

If I can get my hands on corn i always choose the movespeed and armor buff from dancing blade, as it is far more damage and even gives better movement and survivability

@@rainyskyzz_ so something I am worried about that I have not tested... corn has the same wording as strange mask "more than 15%" which means 16%to trigger it, this means the movespeed armour upgrade wont be enough to trigger it.

Ohhhh... I just thought it meant equal to or more...

And I also just realised I'm dumb and you meant we should maybe risk taking the corn-proc upgrade without having corn, as I would have gotten it later in this run anyways

@@rainyskyzz_ I think in this instance it would have lost time, since you would not have crit for the boss so would have been slower. I thought it meant that as well, but I noticed strange mask was masks triggering at 15%, corn is harder to tell if it is triggered or not short of dealing dmg which is a pain.

It looks very different because this run was from the latest early access patch and the game has had it's full release since then. A sub 5 minute run is no longer gonna be possible, thanks to another level and boss-fght being added to the end of the game. Minegun jumping does still work tho, so you can still get crazy high speeds.

@@rainyskyzz_ Alright, thanks for the answer! I'll definitely try the mine jumping, it looks fun as hell

@@baptiste5584 I absolutely love it. Sadly Any% is no longer any fun with the new boss, so I rarely use minegun jumping:/

@@rainyskyzz_ recon is still the easiest class to fight iris tho. Jetpack, triple jump, grappling hool, and you can constantly slash at her face without getting hit at all

@@baptiste5584 Might be yeah - I'll try running a bit of any% whenever I have gotten a sub 10 S% run

Hahah thanks! Sadly runs don't look like this at all anymore

Mine gun is craaazy:)

This run was from the early access where the perks and upgrades were different from how they are now. In general melee recon was nerfed with the full release (and even recon as a whole). If you saw me not taking dmg from meleeing an explosive bot it is likely due to the immunity frames blink provides.

@@rainyskyzz_ This explains why I see so many people saying how good recon is on forums 8 months ago but when I tried it today I hated it

@@MrSnake9419 He is actually still very good - just worse than before, where he was uncontestedly the best

Yeah, I'm honestly surprised this video gets so much attention after the release, when it's a video of pre-release content xd

@@rainyskyzz_ i think its because people are searching up a lot of guides for the last secrets in the game and then youtube recommends your video

@@klpihl actually, most of the clicks comes from youtube recommending the video or people searching for general rq content or speedruns

I'm using the Jetpack gadget It keeps more momentum than simply falling through the air and thus increases the speed a lot

I'm new, how do you get it ?

@@Dzaimon8562 you get it by giving a robot in district xiii a mask with a nose which you find innthe fusion core if i remember right

The speedrun moderator decided that the only leaderboard-submitable categories were standard and H6/G4

The timer is paused when I do that, but it would definitely be a good habit to get rid of anyways

@@rainyskyzz_ ohh my bad

​@@rainyskyzz_just wondering, when You're done with the corrupted temples of platforms, why don't you take the yellow spring? It'd go faster wouldn't it?

@@Dzaimon8562 the timer is paused from completing the corrupted room to opening the door, but the door opens immediately when you touch the launcher. You save a few secs during a run by not taking it.

@@rainyskyzz_ thx for letting me know! I'll be trying this in regular runs

Hah this is an old run, that for some reason still gets laods of views. IRIS was not a thing before the 1.0 patch

@@rainyskyzz_ cool

Thanks brobot

Ssssh dont tell anyone o_o